House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) made some unbelievable comments in an interview with USA Today this week, per normal. Pelosi, 81, made the statement that she would have been able to fend off the rioters who stormed U.S. Capitol Building on January 6.
“Well, I’m pretty tough. I’m a street fighter,” Pelosi responded when she was asked whether she was frightened during the moments of the U.S. Capitol riots, “They would have had a battle on their hands.”
Pelosi then went on to remark that she would have used her 4-inch-high stilettos as weapons to fight off the rioters.
“I was never personally afraid because I had so much security for myself,” she said. “I was afraid for everybody else, and I’ll never forgive them the trauma that they caused to the staff and the members. It was just overwhelming, just overwhelming. You know, our staff are largely young. They come here with the sense of idealism and just love that they’re working in the Capitol.”
Pelosi said Congress’s only goal is to find out “the truth” about the events that unfolded that day.
The Speaker of the House was under fire previously when her hypocrisy concerning the riots at the Capitol compared to the riots in Wisconsin as a display of democracy back in 2011.
Pelosi was in the news earlier this week based on her latest biography.
Axios highlighted details from the book:
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Pelosi unloads on the Squad, at one point adopting a child-like voice when discussing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and offers the Squad this blunt advice: “You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States.”
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Pelosi scoffs at President Obama for not being able to deliver his home state votes for Obamacare — “Why are we having a problem with Illinois?” — and bristles at Obama getting sole credit for the deals she got through Congress.
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The speaker said she learned the art of politics from her father, Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro: “What I learned from my father was everything … I breathed it in … Politics is every minute of every day. It is part of you.”
